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Month: December 2018

November sees countywide unemployment rate drop

With payroll gains exceeding losses throughout the regional economy, Riverside County’s unemployment rate fell last month, state officials reported today. The jobless rate in November, based on preliminary estimates, was 4.1 percent, compared to 4.4 percent in October, according to the California Employment Development Department. The rate was also a half percentage point lower than

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Brandini Toffee ramps up production to fill holiday orders

With holiday orders flooding in, one local business in Rancho Mirage is ramping up production to meet that demand. Brandini Toffee owner and co-founder Brandon Wiemer says the holidays are everything for his business and usually hires extra workers to have the 16 hour workdays and meet the demand of customers. {“url”:”https://twitter.com/JeremyChenKESQ/status/1075749859171450880″,”author_name”:”Jeremy Chen”,”author_url”:”https://twitter.com/JeremyChenKESQ”,”html”:”&#lt;blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”&#gt;&#lt;p lang=”en”

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